East Asia

At the heart of Beijing's global influence plans is a clear Leninist vision.

The United States is worried North Korea will pocket goodies from its southern neighbor without giving up its nukes.

He should confront Trump’s mistakes and put forward a positive agenda.

President Nguyen Phu Trong is drawing from Xi Jinping's playbook.

Joseph Nye’s concept lost relevance, but China could bring it back.

Asian-American politics don't translate on screen into sensitivity to Singapore's real issues.

Beijing's plans are much bigger than the trade war.

Feminists, the young, and Islamophobes have allied against desperate Yemenis.

Beijing sees business as politics, and multinationals need to adjust.

The four-nation mechanism was set up to contain Chinese maritime expansionism, but New Delhi is having second thoughts.

Negotiations with North Korea are a grueling process. The president’s empty boasts don’t help.

Even Donald Trump can't push Tokyo into Beijing's arms.

Here are five issues to watch moving forward.

The G-7 and Singapore summits have put on display breathtaking strategic incoherence and appalling moral vacuity on the part of the Trump administration.

At the Singapore summit, the U.S. president let Kim off the hook.

The best improvisation requires prep work.

The United States needs its allies if it wants to make a deal with North Korea.

No one knows for sure what will happen in Singapore. These are some of the possibilities.

If North Korea agrees to denuclearize, here's how Trump should go about rolling back sanctions.

I worked on international negotiations under Obama — and now I’m watching from the sidelines as the Trump team gets it all wrong.